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...Feild pointed to the corner of his living room overlooking Garden Street where he had composed all the watercolors now collected in the show. "The English Lakes in Sunshine and Shadow" at Hilles Library. He had set his desk between the window ledge supporting blooming begonias and the bookcase containing his leather-bound embossed sets of Blake and Turner prints, Economically equipped with half-a-dozen paints, water and one brush, he had had a gorgeous time. At 78, he had laid a lifetime of artistic training and personal experience to harvest creating what he calls "my little pictures." However...
...Feild would like to think his watercolors romantic. His exhibit represents an evocation of a mood and feeling for a region he first visited in childhood and to which he is strongly attached. Nostalgic experience, the longing "to paint myself back into a dreamworld," is a partial motivation. This accounts for an occasional sentimentality in certain pictures. (Appropriate sentiment, Mr. Feild believes, and not in self-defense, is "terribly rare...
...offer nearly limitless possibilities for orchestration. Controlling the placement of the terms ("taking hills, put them together, cutting out a piece of water,") is the aim of providing visual enjoyment. In order to be able to impart pleasure, the picture must be structured, and structured to be decorative. Mr. Feild's fond sensitivity experiments with the swift change in atmosphere characteristic of the Lake District and the effect this tension between light and shadow has on a landscape's face. Predicating this freedom "to play and monkey around" is an ideological commitment to discipline, to being accountable first...
...does not smack of modernity. The interplay between memory and imagination has removed the landscapes to a plane somewhere between the actual and the ideal. The pictures do not record fact--what the Lake Country really looks like--but rather the sense of mystery and wonder it produces. Mr. Feild has hewn every element in the vista to its most essential aspect. In this manner, the side of a cliff is painted as color emboldened by light; his nature is composed of remarkable harmonies. A spiritual sympathy for the Oriental arrangement of space lends the pictures a vast, almost mythic...
...term as Instructor of Art on the Harvard Faculty ended in 1939 with Feild's controversial dismissal from the University, "I happen to consider myself a radical," the 79-year-old artist told guests at Hilles. "I was out of sympathy with art instruction at Harvard. But art is on illustration of society. Art is my politics," he said...